Global Sea Level Drops 6 mm in 2010 [NASA satellite data]

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[grundle]

The red line in this image shows the long-term increase in global sea level since satellite altimeters began measuring it in the early 1990s. Since then, sea level has risen by a little more than an inch each decade, or about 3 millimeters per year. While most years have recorded a rise in global sea level, the recent drop of nearly a quarter of an inch, or half a centimeter, is attributable to the switch from El Niño to La Niña conditions in the Pacific. The insets show sea level changes in the Pacific Ocean caused by the recent El Niño and La Niña (see http://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/science/elninopdo for more information on these images). Image credit: S. Nerem, University of Colorado

[tomkat]

[Paladin2]

OMG, we’re gonna die.

[grandpa jones]

Oh boy! Maybe we can get Eastwood to do another commercial.

[Cementjungle]

It’s worse than I thought. Global Warming (tm) made the sea levels rise by 16 feet, concurrently the heat from global warming caused evaporation which lowered the sea levels by 16 feet (plus 2 cm).

[Aevery_Freeman]

So....

Is this "the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal"...?

Is that the sound of a head swelling I hear?

[steadcom]

“This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”

Most megalomaniacal line in Barack Obama’s speech. We laughed a lot.

[Berlin_Freeper]

6mm is nothing.

[The_Victor]

So I guess 0bama can claim to have kept one campaign promise.

[CaptainK]

I thought global warming was suppose to melt the icecaps and increase the global sea level.

[opentalk]

"CO2 Lies": German Media Destroys the Global Warming Scam

[albie]

AAAAAH!! NEXT THING Y’KNOW IT’LL BE 7MM!!! I’M THIRSTY!!

[RJS1950]

The real question: Is the sea level falling or are the tectonic plates being pushed upwards by 6 mm?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Al Gore and Dr. James Hansen find this pesky Satellite Data very disturbing and NOT to be trusted....

[BitWielder1]

I thought global warming was suppose to melt the icecaps and increase the global sea level.

No, Global Warming makes the planet both hotter and colder, therefore the sea level will both rise and fall.
This proves it.
Can't follow that? Doesn't matter, it still our fault and we have to use even more curly light bulbs and pay trillions of dollars to developing nations to stop it.

[MrB]

"is the ground risin'?"

[Sudetenland]

Neither. It's a hidden alien base sitting at the bottom of the ocean consuming our water.

. . . and you all thought that Battle: Los Angeles was just a movie.

HAH! I say it again. HAH!

[opentalk]

They are going to try and change the scam, possibly to protecting animal species, animals that are becoming extinct. Too many people..the earth is fragile

[EGPWS]

The sea level goes down and we all are going to die unless we give up all of our hard earned labor and change our ways.

The sea level goes up and we are all going to die unless we give up our hard earned labor and change our ways.

The sea level is stuck in place and we are all going to die unless we give up all of our hard earned labor and change our ways....

[GeronL]

where did the water go?

did it become..... ice??